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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27

Startling Prices
DRESS GOODS.
At 25c-Double width Pin Head
Checks and Mixtures - fabrics
worth fully 400.
At 50c-Double width all wool Tailor
Suitings. All new spring shades,
good value for Too.
At Sc rs and IT 50-New Spring
Combination Dress Patterns,
cheap at $40.
At 65c-Grand line of all wool double
width small Stripes and Checks;
the very highest fashion. A
splendid bargain.
At 15c-New Gray Mixtures, half
wool, real value 25c.
At 400 TO 55c-Ths most gorgeous
collection of French Sateens
ever brought to this country.
At l5c to 35o-Tbe best qualities and
choicest styles in American
Sateens.
At 25o-Prench and Scotch Tufted
Zepbyrs and Chambrays.
At $50 - Select Patterns in Paris
Boucle Zephyrs-be lutiful de-
signs.
At 33c-Double width Corded Wool
Dress Goods, worth 500.
At 50 80 to $40 50-Magnifcent Sc.
lection of Paris and London
Combination Dress Pattern, u
own importation-no two alike.
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Mrs. X, A, Sloan,
Order ..A1ulford Made Medals"

Grand opening Wednesday, March
3lst,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27
We Have No Competitor
Memphis Carriage Works.

In ice cream when quality ia desired.
JOS. SPECHT 4 SON, 81 Madison ST.
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REMARKs-"Heading on gauge. Headings
bsloo toe Of rail track. tRthding given Ia feet
and docimals OF q foot
D.. T. FLANNERY, Observer In Charge,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-27
Startling Prices
SPECIAL NOTICE.

Our opening of Paris Millinery
and Pattern Bonnets will take place
sext Thursday, March 3lst, At the
same time we will display our ele-
CANT Easter Cards and Easter
Novelties. Superb selections.
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meteorological Report.
MtMrHs, Tenn, March %, 1887.
Time. Bar, Their. Wind We'th
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17

No matter if others do not understand
you, if you understand yourself.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17
HE KNEW 1T WOULD RAIN.
Taking Time by the Forelock in the Mat
ter of Prophecy.

Taking Time by the Forelock in the Mat
ter of Prophecy.
II spent the Fourth of July" said Ser
geant McComb, Gin part of Illinois where
the farmers hadn't any rain for month
and were praying for it to come. I was in
the house of one of these farmers, a strong
believer in the efficacy of prayer, and he
told me he thought that the Lord was send
ing them the drouth to punish them for
their wickedness. After dinner I went out
into the woods and lay down under tree.
Pretty soon big dead limb dropped off a
tree close to my bed. I had lived in the
country long enough to know that was a
good sign of approaching rain. Then in q
little while more heard tree-toad chirrup.
Rain sign No. 81 Then | heard rain crow
cav, and I sat up to listen. Sign No. 8!
Presently heard a locomotive whistle and
the train rumble over track l knew was
fifteen miles away. Sign No. Al
II got up and went into the house and told
my friend that I had been out praying for
rain to come before night, and added that 1
was confident of getting what wanted. He
less way that he guessed not. 1t wasn't for
an irreGgious man from st. Louis to come
out there and outpray all the good people of
hat neighborhood. I took him out in the
yard and showed him the clouds. 'Oh,' said
he with cheerfulness, that'u pass around
us. We've had that to occur before But
made him make everything secure, and be-
fore long there came rain that would have
drowned man if he had been out in it. The
farmer was in ecstacies and would have can
onized me if he had known how. I left
while my laurels were green, and suppose
my friend hasn't yet decided whether or not
possess supernatural powers. ''-'Ss. Louis
Globe Democrat
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17

out his own way, some CONTEMPORARY,
some with comic grin, some with anger.
When O'Gorman Mahon's turn came he
looked up into the face of the sergeant
and saw that of an old associate and
friend whose hair was as white as his own.
They gazed moment on each other,
with glances of blended amusement and
regret; and grasping the officials hand
kindly, he waived service, saluted the
speaker with courtly grace, and strobe
out like king with supreme indiffer-
ence.
O'Gorman Mahon is now eighty-four
years of age. 1t was enough for Mr..
Parnell to know that he was willing to
take the vacant seat for Carlow to nomi
nate him for it, and he was elected with
out contest. He firmly believes that he
will live to see restored to its old home
in Dublin the Irish national legislature,
removed thence only three years before
he was born. He is the Oldest man ever
elected to Parliament, and the Oldest,
except perhaps Lord Brougham, who has
occupied seat in either house, with fac
ulties perfectly vigorous.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17

ciful and very hospitabl0. One day an
Englishman by the name of Thomas
Cromwell appeared at his door asking
for shelter and aims, which were cheer
fully rendered. Frescobald afterward
lost all his property, became very poor
and wandered up into England; and one
day he saw procession passing, and 10
it was the lord chancellor of England, and
10 the lord chancellor of England was
Thomas Cromwell, the very man whom
he had once befriended down in Italy.
The lord chancellor, at the first glance of
Frescobald, recognized him, and dis
mounted from his carriage, threw his arms
around him, and embraced him, paid his
debts, invited him to his house, and said |:
"Here are ten pieces OF money to pay for
the bread you gave me, and here are ten
pieces of money to provide for the horse
you loaned me, and here are four bags, in
each of which are four hundred ducats.
Take them and be WELL" So it will be at
last with US. If we entertain Christ in
the person of His disciples in this world,
when we pass up into the next country,
we will meet Christ in regal procession,
and He will pour all the wealth of Heaven
into our lap, and open before US everlast-
ing Inequalities. And 0, how tame are
the richest entertainments we can
give on earth compared with the regal
muniticence which Christ will display
before our souls in Heaven! I was read
ing the account which Thomas Fuller
gives of the entertainment provided by
George Neville. Among other things,
for that banquet they had three hundred
quarters of wheat, one hundred and four
tuns of wine, eighty oxen, three thousand
capons, two hundred cranes, two hun
dred kids, four thousand pigeons, four
thousand rabbits, two hundred and four
bitterns, two hundred pheasants, five
hundred cartridges, four hundred plover,
one hundred quail, one hundred curlews,
fifteen hundred hot pasties, four thousand
cold venison pasties, four thou
acting as steward, and servitors one
thousand. o, what grand feast was
that but then compare it with the pro-
vision which God has made for us on
high: that great banquet hour; the one
hundred and forty and four thousand as
guests; all the harps and trumpets of
Heaven as the orchestra; the vintage of
the celestial hills poured into the tank
ards; all the fruits of the orchards of
God piled on the golden platters the
angels of the Lord for cup-bearers, and
the once folded starry banner of the blue
sky flung out over the scene, while seated
at the head of the table shall be the One
who eighteen centuries ago declared:
81 was stranger and We took Me in"
Our sins pardoned, may we all mingle in
those hOspitalities
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17
A BLOOMING DESERT.
An Elliptical Enclosure of Cyclopean Ma
sonry Found There.

Mr.. G. A. Farini gives a rather rose-colored
account of the Kalahari desert in the July
number of the Proceedings Of the Royal Geo.
graphical Society. He appears to have been
fortunate enough to traverse the waste soon
after the rainy season, for he reports abund-
ance of grass. There are norunning streams;
only dry Water-courses and pans where
water can be obtained by digging. Mimosas,
called "kgung," are abundant, and small
gourds often assist in preserving the lives of
oxen by enabling them to dispense with
water. The natives are Bushmen, kattea,
Vaalpens. the latter of whom are vassals of
the Bechuanas and in their turn enslave the
other tribes. Mr.. Farini declares that all
Bushmen are not dwarfs, since cave-inhab-
iting tribe he met with were aboutthe medium
height. A curious ruin was found in about
234 degrees south latitude, and 213 degrees
east longitude. 1t consists Of huge ellipti-
cal Enclosure of cyclopean masonry.
Within is a cross-shaped pavement of
long, narrow blocks, with what seems a
base for monument in the centre. A
broken column with four fiat futed sides
was found. Around the ellipse, at regular
intervals, were basin-shaped ovals. some
formed out of one piece of stone, others out
of several. The Kalahari is a plateau 5000
to 1900 feet above the sea, with an average
summer heat OF eighty degrees during the
day. cool nights, and average winter temper
ature of sixty degrees. If sufficient water
can be obtained by digging, it would appear
to be suitable for European colonization,
and our traveller is sanguine on this point.
Where wells have been dug by the half
breeds who have settled in the southern
part, fertile GASES are the result, as the soil is
rich. Mr.. Farini also made his way to the
almost inaccessible falls of the Orange river.
fol inf ia
there are about 100 cascades. At high
water many of these unite into sheet rival
ing Niagara. At low water there are several
smaller falls $50 feet high, and main fall
(the Hercules) 165 feet high.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17

Some Different Views Held by Army and
Navy Officials.

Some Different Views Held by Army and
Navy Officials.
Considerable discussion is going on in
England as to the probable policy of the
English government respecting the Medi-
terranean sea and the Suez canal in the event
of a possible war with France. The late
General Gordon held that if England be-
came involved in war with her neighbor
across the channel, it would be much the
best plan to abandon the Suez canal and to
give up all hope of holding the Mediterra-
mean sea, for the reason that the French
fleets would probably prove superior to the
English in those waters. On this account
General Gordon maintained that it was a
needless expense for England to hold Malta
and Cyprus, and to pay so much attention
to Egyptian matters; for, if the Suez canal
was closed to her vessels, she still had the
way to India around the Cape of Good Hope,
and could, by the possession of Gibraltar,
prevent the access of an enemy's fleet to the
Atlantic.
English naval officers, on the other hand,
MAINTAIN that the abandonment OF the
Mediterranean would be a confession on the
part of England that her days of naval
supremacy were over, and that she could not
hope to continue her hold upon India If her
only means of communication was by the
long route around Africa. They, further
nloio, AASlSt tudG Ii Is I'LL open SeCItI tIal, AZ
the event of threatened war; the policy of
the British admiralty would be to obtain
accurate information of the position of every
considerable warship of the enemy. and,
upon the formal declaration of war, vessels
Of sufficient strength would be instantly dis
patched to keep guard over the ships of the
enemy. In this way the superior naval
strength of England would make itself telt,
and the war vessels of her enemy would
either have to fight or lie useless in the ports
where they happened to find themselves. Ii
this plan was followed out, naval authorities
believe that there would be little trouble ex-
perienced in England holding the Mediterra-
mean against any probable enemy.-6osto"
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17
A Growing Business.

The canning of fruits and vegetables in
California has increased rapidly within the
last few years. 1t has nearly trebled in de-
cade, the pack of last season exceeding $780,
600 cases and that of 1887 is estimated to be
at least thirty per cent. larger, making the
production nearly 100000 cases. Fully
eighty per cent. of these canned goods are
marketed east of the Rocky Mountains, not
few of them being sold for direct export to
Europe.-New Orleans Times Democrat.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17
Big Figures

The assessed valuation of the State of New
York shows total of So, OO6, 800, 010 real and
1886, ,663 personal. In the table, as pub
sented by more than $4,000, 900 personal
property, and only two others-Erie, with
$10,269, 725, and Kings, with S14, 657, 676-are
credited with over $1,000 600.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17
THE MINSTRELS OF THE NIGHT.

When the flowers are calmly sleeping,
And sweet silence reigns DER all,
Then the first tomcat of evening
Climbs upon my garden wall.
There he meditates on nature,
On her quiet beauties around
But his reverie is broken
By form upon the ground.
Then he sings in notes op'ratic,
Sweet Maria, hasten here;
Nature waits her queen to welcome
And the stars are shining clear.
Then Maria's sweet soprano
Greets dear Thomas on the wall,
And the sisters, aunts and cousins
Come together-one and all.
Now the concert-strains delightful
All the echoes around prolong;
Mortal beings lack the power
Yet to value feline song.
Every solo is repeated
Clearer, louder than before,
And the curses, shoes, and so forth
From near windows give encore.
When the morning lights appearing,
Creamy visions come and go,
Kitchen maids preparing breakfast,
And the cookstove's rudy glow.
Then thesongsters all are silent;
Sober thoughts in each arise,
And they make a hasty parting
Each one to a back-door HES.
Into breakfast now they scamper,
Maltese, tortoise shell and white:
flushed until another cleaning
Are the Ministries of the night.
-Bosto, yoa1g'iea
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17
Our Fortunate Beauty.

Mrs. Cleveland inherited $780, 900 soon after
she was married. Congressman Mcohane
saws that the value of Omaha property in
which Mrs. Cleveland and her mother each
own one-eighth interest is at least $780, ooo.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17

The pilot is the most friendly man in the
world He never meets steamer without
asking the captain to drop him ine.-Ptts-
burq Chronicle.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-09-17
ANGELS UNAWARE
THE DUTIES OF HOSPITALITY
SHOWN FORTH.

Rev, T. Dewitt Talmage's Sermon on One
of the Requisites for Entering Heaven
The Examples of Abraham and LOU
Trials Met i'm Exhibiting This Grace.
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THE WEATHER AND THE DEXTER
BANK ROBBERY.
A Careful synopsis of the Months Of Jan.
uary and February, 1878.

Yesterday afternoon knowing that the
Journal was endeavoring to procure some
carefully recorded synopsis of the weather
for the months of January aud February
1875. in order to complete the evidence in
regard to the disputed point of weather in
the Dexter Bank Robbery case, DR.. Sanborn
of the Insane Hospital kindly sent over the
records kept In that institution during that
year. 1t has been frequently reported that
there were at that time three feet of snow
and tina, it was impossible for Stain and his
associates TO have travelled iu wagon as has
been stated by young Slain in his first con-
fession. This exception his been so emphat-
ically taken by several prominent lessl criti.
cisors Of S;ain's confession that it was con-
sidered best to produce some proof to show
taat wagons were used and that sleighing
htd not been the general mode of travelling.
This proof is furnished in the following
weather record which is a correct copy of the
original
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Simeon Mudgett, NJ. D.. Joseph Springall,
M. D., Charles W. Curtis, cashier National
Bank. Atwood J. Cobb. Samuel Morrill,, Levi
Brigham, Joseph 81. Larrabee. Frank
Thompson, Thomas Bicknell, Berjamn
Thompson, Mrs. Daniel McCrillis, Dexter
Fourth Dispatch.
Especial to the Kennebec Journal1
DExrER, Oct. %.
Tho belief is fast gaining ground that Bar
ron's murderers are now in custody. Attor-
ney General Baker aud Ex-Governor Plaisted
express themselves as thoroughly believing
that the right parties have been arrested. tits
expected on all sides that important dsclos-
ures are to be made today which the general
public have as yet no knowledge Of
great many believe that Cromwell is today
going to tell the full cistory of his con.
neotion with the Stain gang.
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MAINE DISPATCHES.
AMERICAN SHIPPING.
Senator FRYE Addresses the Convention
at Boston.

BOSTON, Oct. Il.
The convention of the American shipping
and Industrial League met in Boston Friday.
Otis lnman of the Chamber of Commerce,
presiding. Mayor O'Brien welcomed the
delegates. j. F. Bliss vas chosen secretary
Ten States were represented by 32 organiza-
tions and $50 delegates.
Hon II. S. Spotford of Massachusetts, was
chosen president ard made an address in
which he discussed the decline of American
shipping and the various methods that had
been proposed for its resus citation.
Senator Frye Of Maine followed Mr.. Spot
ford in brief speech. He said he had been
doing all be could to lift up from death the
American merchant marine but ship owners
were lying on their oars doing nothing
Organized work was a power in this coun-
try. There was nothing to which Congress
was more sensitive than to the voice Of the
voting population. 1t is time that the Amer
lean people woke up to the fact that unless
market is soon found for American manu-
factures outside this country there would be
an over production that would be fatal. If
we had all the ships we needed, we could not
sail them cheaply enough to compete with
England.
The way to compete successfully was to
have Congress put its hand into that big sur
plus and pay for sailing American ships IN
der the American eag. 1t was great task
to get snch measure adopted but organized
effort would accomplish it.
A committee on resolutions was appointed
and the meeting adjourned until 2. M.
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THE ALLEGuANI.
Further News from the Stranded Steam.
ship.


BosroN, Oct. 81.
Capt. Taylor, of the steamer Allegheny
telegraphs from Chatham as follows The
Allegheny is ashore three and half miles
southwest by west from Chatham Lights
struck something off West Chap; run ashore
to keep from sinking.
We are in want OF divers, lighters, steam
pumps and tug at once; think the lower
hover hold ard lower between decks well
filled; think the ship can be saved and cargo
in dangerous condition; the eight passen-
gers are ali well will send them ashore the
first chance; ship damaged forward; think
not bad can be freed with wrecking pumps
in three fsthoms of water.
The Allegheny was large, tbree-deck iron
steamship, $50 feet long and registered 2ol4
tons capacity. She was built ID fhiiaoede,-
nbia in 1881 and commanded by Capt. Hal
left, the oldest captain in the fleet. She was
owned by the Merchants and Miners Trans
portation Co. of Baltimore.
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Interview with Sheriff Mitchell.

Especial TO the Kennebec Journal
Your correspondent has just had an inter
view with Sheriff Mitchell who returned
from Massachusetts last night. Hs says
there are no new developments in the Barron
case, nothing but what the papers have had.
But he is confident they have the right par,
brought forward at the right time. Almost
every one in this section is talking abou, the
matter and all think Mr.. Mitchell on the
right track.
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Potato Buyers Quarrel.
HoULToN, Oct. 81.

TUJLTON, VNI. z I.
Especial to the Kennebec journal
Three or four weeks ago William Dobson
and Fred Cleveland potato buyers. while
bidding for load Of potatoes got into dis
pute which ended in brutal fight. Cleve-
land received internal injuries from which a
recovery is very doubtful. He is not how
ever at present in critical condition.
Civil suit has been brought against Dobson
and on attachment placed on all his property.
For some reason the matter has been kept
from the papers as much as possible.
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Fire at Sacc.

SAco, Oct 81.
Fire at o'clock Friday morning destroyed
the building on the Tibbetts farm, two miles
from Saco, ewned by Oliver Hamilton. The
Saco fire department turned out but no water
could be obtained Only a little furniture
was saved. The fire originated in the barn
and was undoubtedly set by an incendiary.
Loss $1,000: partly insured.
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Another Big Haul by tn, Mo1i. Men.

short time ago, volcanic Castalian
spring was discovered in the Sierra Nevadas,
like that at Mt. Perosis, Spain, so celebrated
in Europe. First the water cured celebrated
General of very painful dyspepsia of23 years
standing. Then a lot of old cases of supposed
incurable rheumatism. Now it has cured q
number of cases of BriRht's Disease in the
beginning of the second stage, and there is a
great excitement over it among the doctors in
San Francisco and New York. The Moxie
man, DIR. A. Thompson, saw an opportunity,
as he always does, and secured il for New
England. To introduce il, the DIR. will fur
nish water and treatment free for twelve cases
OF same as above, in each of the following
cities Call on him Monday forenoons at
hotel, Lewiston Exchange, Lewiston, Me-;
Monday afternoons and evenings, at the
Preble House, Portland, Me-; Tuesday FORE
moons, American House, Dover. N. H.;
Tuesday afternoons and evenings, at Hotel
Windsor, Manchester, N. H.; Wednesday
forenoons at fremont House. Nashua; We'd
nesday afternoons and evenings, at Moxie
Stand, Mechanics Fair, Boston; Thursday
forenoons, at City Hotel, New Haven, Ct.
Thursday afternoons and evenings, at the
Allyn House, Hartford; Friday forenoons, at
the Massssoit House. Springfield; Friday sf-
ternoons and evenings, Bay State House,
Worcester; Saturday forenoons, at Narragan-
sett House, Providence, R. l.. Saturday af-
ternoons and evenings, at 16 Varney st.,
Lowell, until further notice.
oct2ld2taw&wnr
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NAMES SUMMER TRAVEL.
What MIR. Blaine says concerning it.

In conversation with Labor Commits
sioner Matthews, a day or two before his de-
paltlre for Europe, Mr.. Blame alluded to
the importance of Names summer travel,
and said that he had attempted an estimate
based on very low standard, $50 "A head,
and that he estimated the total of money ex-
pended in Maine, on account Of its unsur-
passed advantages as a summer resort, at
between eight and Dine millions OF dollars.
As an call round estimate, Mr. Blaine
was, probably, not far out the way,
When We take into ccount the amount Of
money expended by summer visitors in the
buildng of cottages. the hunters and fishers
in remote sections, and the Thousand and one
ways in which money is brought into the
State by her inducements to 'summer travel"
the total amount cannot bereached by figures
obtained through Bureau of Statistics.
An interesting item of Maine industries is
her fsheries. In order to certain some
facts 'relating to this department Of labor in
the State inquiries are being made by the
Commissioner of the Bureau of Industrial
and Labor Statistics, the answer to which will
be an interesting feature in his Report. These
enquiries" relate to individual and family
life Of class Of Names laborers, whose re-
cord is written among the "first in war;"
but who. in peace, have been too often re-
garded as "last and least"
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Collision at Sea.

RocKLAND, Oct. 81.
The schooner Warner Moore. Crockett,
arrived here today from plaster for New
York, while anchored in West Bay on the
18th inst, the schooner Faustina drifted into
her. The Faustina was badly injured while
the Warner Moore was but slightly bruised.